Brooms, buckets, and shaving cream tulips stand ready for the annual Scrubbing of State Street, the traditional beginning of the weekend-long Tulip Festival.
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I have a neighbor that scrubs the asphalt outside his house every now and then. He is the only one that I know who does that sort of thing. But he doesn't have any tulips.
ReplyDeleteI don't think I'd heard Albany having a tulip festival!
ReplyDeleteI have a newspaper clipping of my mother and other members of the Daughters of the British Empire doing this back in the 50's.
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